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TUESDAY, 3 MARCH 2020 TATTERSALLS RELEASES CRAVEN CATALOGUE IT=S FRANKEL FOR SKITTER A Shalaa (Ire) colt out of GI Beverly D. S. winner Royal Highness SCATTER=S FIRST MATING (Ger) (Monsun {Ger}) (lot 116) and a Dubawi (Ire) filly out of G2 Park S. victress Meeznah (Dynaformer) (lot 83) are among the expected highlights of the 145 juveniles in the Tattersalls Craven Breeze Up Sale, for which the catalogue was released on Monday. The sale takes place Apr. 14 and 15, with the breeze on Apr. 13 on the Rowley Mile. The Shalaa colt, a i25,000 Arqana October yearling, is consigned by Kilminfoyle House Stud and is a half-brother to triple French group winner Free Port Lux (GB) (Oasis Dream {GB}) and from the immediate family of dual Group 1 winner Wild Illusion (GB). The Dubawi filly out of Meeznah was a 180,000gns buy back at the Tattersalls October yearling sale and is consigned here by Egmont Stud. There are 18 2-year-olds catalogued out of group or listed- winning mares, and 28 siblings to black-type winners. The five catalogued by Kingman (GB) include half-brothers to Group 1 winners Al Kazeem (GB) (Dubawi {Ire}) (lot 62) and Poet=s Word (GB) (Poet=s Voice {GB}) (lot 142) Cont. p4 Anthony Rogers greets Skitter Scatter and Ronan Whelan after they won the G2 Debutante S. | racingfotos.com By Amy Lynam Success can be measured in numerous ways, though longevity must be considered a great yardstick no matter the field in which someone excels. Airlie Stud has been a leader of the bloodstock industry since it was established in the 1960s by the late Captain Tim Rogers, under whose management it became a stallion farm of great proportions. His wife Sonia took the reins upon his passing in 1984 and after deciding to focus completely on a quality broodmare band, has developed the next phase of the Airlie legacy alongside her son Anthony. One of the most recent chapters in Airlie's success story is Skitter Scatter (Scat Daddy), the champion 2-year-old filly of Craven graduate Donjuan Triumphant | racingfotos.com 2018 on the merit of a victory in the G1 Moyglare Stud S. Trained by Patrick Prendergast for Anthony and Sonia, she was bred by the Rogers= in conjunction with longstanding partners IN TDN AMERICA TODAY Three Chimneys Farm. Skitter Scatter this year joins the Co. Kildare nursery=s enviable broodmare band. GET STORMY CONTINUES TO REWARD BUSH, SULLIVAN Jessica Martini speaks with trainer Tom Bush about the success "The dream is to own and breed a Group 1 winner and Skitter he and owner/breeder Mary Sullivan have tasted with Scatter provided that for the farm in 2018,@ Anthony Rogers Crestwood Farm's Get Stormy and his progeny. Click or tap here said. AShe will visit Frankel in 2020." Cont. p2 to go straight to TDN America. TDN EUROPE • PAGE 2 OF 7 • THETDN.COM TUESDAY • 3 MARCH 2020 Airlie Stud Matings cont. from p1 "It was great for the first foal of a mare to get black-type, Skitter Scatter is out of a half-sister to Intense Focus, who was however Nurse Barbara was only beaten by a pixel in the bred by the same partnership, and the family's story is far from Ballylinch Ingabelle S.,@ Rogers said. AI am sure Ger Lyons and over. the owners will have fun with her in 2020." "Her brother Moore Street Wise is with Paddy Twomey,@ Airlie plans to support Invincible Spirit=s first-season sire son Rogers said. ABoth the trainer and Billy Lee are pleased with him Magna Grecia (Ire) with Stupendous Miss (Dynaformer), already and all being well he should be out early." responsible for three stakes horses and currently due to Expert Moore Street Wise's homework has earned him a Guineas Eye (GB). It is a family the Rogers= have been involved with for entry, while Skitter Scatter's exploits earned her dam, Dane some time. Street (Street Cry {Ire}), a visit to Dubawi (Ire). That mating "It was a family that we owned with Robert Clay in the 80s and produced a colt on Feb. 17 and is to be followed with a trip to 90s with Stormette (Assert {Ire}),@ Rogers said. AWe bought back Kingman (GB) at Juddmonte Farms. into it a few years ago, buying Stupendous Miss at Keeneland. Another homebred joining Skitter Scatter in Airlie's paddocks is Her 4-year-old Moll Davis (Ire) (Kingman {GB}) is with George Magnolia Springs (Ire) (Shamardal), a stakes winner who is set Scott. We got a bit of black-type with her last year and will be to visit Sea The Stars (Ire) in trying to get some more in 2020. 2020." "A listed winner by Blue Point (Ire) is another Shamardal from an excellent new sire to whom Airlie are Ballymacoll family is exciting," sending a mare, specifically Rogers said. "We also have her Kate The Great (GB) (Xaar 3-year-old sister called {GB}). Vivandiere (Ire) (War "Kate The Great was bought Command) in training with as a foal and comes from the Sheila Lavery." family of Deep Impact (Jpn) a Rainbow City (Ire), the dam couple of generations back," of Magnolia Springs, reads as Rogers explained. "She won a an absolute bargain buy at little race at two but her 60,000gns, the daughter of progeny have done very well Magnolia Springs joins the Airlie broodmare band | Racing Post top broodmare sire Rainbow on the track with three rated Quest being a full-sister to G2 Geoffrey Freer S. winner over 100 and her first foal Eastern Impact (Ire) (Bahamian Multicoloured (Ire) and a half to the top-class Gamut (Ire) Bounty {GB}) rated 116." Due to foal to Sea The Stars (Ire), Kate (Spectrum {Ire}). The Great has a yearling colt by Invincible Spirit. On the subject of shrewd investments, Rogers nominated Fair Sailing (Ire) is a daughter of top-class miler Docksider, another broodmare. "Marsh Daisy (GB) (Pivotal {GB}) was a whom Airlie bred and themselves stood in his early stallion great buy by my mother and uncle for ,80,000 in 2012,@ he said. career. Fair Sailing has produced two group performers, is AShe was a listed winner by Pivotal from an excellent Meon currently in foal to Tamayuz (GB) and will visit Valley family." Starspangledbanner (Aus) in 2020. The aforementioned price was paid as a yearling and her two Starspangledbanner commands i22,500 at Coolmore's black-type successes came over 10 furlongs in the colours of Sir Castlehyde Stud, as does Zoffany (Ire), who sired his second Thomas Pilkington. She has gone on to produce yearlings worth Group 1 winner last season in the shape of Albigna (Ire). Airlie 435,000gns and 260,000gns, the former paid for Light Blush (Ire) has enjoyed success in the past with Zoffany and will send him (Kodiac {GB}), who finished a close second in the Listed Star S. Marie Celeste (Ire) (Galileo {Ire}) this season. last summer and was beaten three-quarters of a length when "Marie Celeste is producing some nice-looking stock,@ Rogers third in last Thursday=s Listed Meydan Classic. With an said. AHer Zoffany yearling was one of our nicest yearlings last Acclamation (GB) 2-year-old and Australia (GB) yearling, both year, bought by Rabbah for ,85,000. fillies, Marsh Daisy visits Invincible Spirit (Ire) this season. "Sadly Marie Celeste's dam Kincob (Kingmambo) died having The Irish National Stud stalwart will also be visited by Finagle Ursa Minor (Ire) (Sea The Stars {Ire}), who looks a promising (Ire) (Azamour {Ire}), whose first foal Nurse Barbara (Ire) (Kodiac 3-year-old in training with John Gosden and has a Derby entry. {GB}) took second in a listed contest last year. TDN EUROPE • PAGE 3 OF 7 • THETDN.COM TUESDAY • 3 MARCH 2020 Airlie Stud Matings cont. The stud also has a sister to Marie Celeste called Dupioni (Ire) (Siyouni {Fr}) in training with Paddy Gallagher in California." Airlie are repeating a tried and tested formula with another Castlehyde resident, Holy Roman Emperor (Ire), whose Airlie-bred daughter Valeria Messalina (Ire) won on debut in September before finishing a close second in the G3 Oh So Sharp Senior Vice President Gary King S. at Newbury. Twitter: @garykingTDN "Valeria Messalina came back to Airlie for a little break and [email protected] returned to [trainer Jessica] Harrington at the beginning of the + 1.732.320.0975 year,@ Rogers said. AShe reports that she is very happy and is enjoying her work." International Editor Kelsey Riley Twitter: @kelseynrileyTDN [email protected] European Editor Emma Berry Twitter: @collingsberry [email protected] Associate International Editor Heather Anderson Twitter: @HLAndersonTDN Marketing Manager Alayna Cullen Twitter: @AlaynaCullen Sonia and Anthony Rogers with Eva Maria Bucher-Haefner after [email protected] Skitter Scatter won the G1 Moyglare Stud S. | Racing Post Contributing Editor Alan Carasso Her dam Arty Crafty (Arch) previously produced Group 3 Twitter: @EquinealTDN scorer Pincheck (Ire) (Invincible Spirit {Ire}) and is currently in Cafe Racing foal to Kodiac (GB) and will visit Holy Roman Emperor again this Sean Cronin season. The family's exploits are not limited to one mare, Tom Frary though. [email protected] "We bought back Valeria Messalina's sister Enraptured (Ire) (Oasis Dream {GB}) a couple of years ago and her first foal by Irish Correspondent Siyouni recently won in France." Daithi Harvey Airlie's exploits have often taken it far and wide, and at one time the Rogers= owned farms in the U.S. and New Zealand as Regular Columnists Chris McGrath | John Berry | Kevin Blake well as Ireland.